Based on that list healthy Rose would be the most athletic player in the league, his flexibility, speed, coordination, agility, balance in the air, change of direction and accuracy was unmatched by anyone in the league. He actually had post moves that he executed inbetween 3-4 players and still somehow got to the rim and finished. And he was probably the strongest PG in the league and couldn't be guarded or pushed around by anyone, no wonder only one to stop him was basically a bigger stronger version of himself in Lebron.

Yeah, Rose is an exceptional athlete. If I had to only judge a player athleticism using the eye-test, Rose looks like the best athlete on the floor every night.

Based on that list healthy Rose would be the most athletic player in the league, his flexibility, speed, coordination, agility, balance in the air, change of direction and accuracy was unmatched by anyone in the league. He actually had post moves that he executed inbetween 3-4 players and still somehow got to the rim and finished. And he was probably the strongest PG in the league and couldn't be guarded or pushed around by anyone, no wonder only one to stop him was basically a bigger stronger version of himself in Lebron.

So rose is the most athletic player in the NBA. and the only one to stop him is a bigger stronger version of himself in Lebron, but rose is the most athletic player in the NBA?

i guess on a scale of 1-10, 1 would be the worst in the league (like steve novak in power) 5 is average (rudy gay) and 10 i would rate the top guys (lebron, dwight, west)

That still has little to do with the actual distribution; e.g. the difference that separates the #1 guy and the #2 guy could be the same as the difference between the #2 guy and the very worst guy. In that case, #1 = 10, #2 = 5.5, last place = 1. Or things can be top heavy and 90% of the league could be 9~10 while the rest are a 1.

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see, if you give him an 8 in a certain category, with 400+ players in the league you gotta come up with 20 guys who are better in that category.

Wrong, you can't justify randomly picking a distribution that fits your agenda of saying Lebron should be 10 across the board just because there aren't 20 people better than him in each category.

why not? you can break it down to relativity. the strongest guy will be a 10. he'll raise what is the average which is a 5. so relatively shaq would be 10 amd the the time malone is a 8. bit right now, theres nobody who is clear cut stronger than lebron